Lisa Wilkinson's Motivation to Report Brittany Higgins' Story Revealed in Court Documents

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Court documents reveal that Lisa Wilkinson was motivated to report on Brittany Higgins' alleged rape in order to be a champion for suppressed women. A transcript of a conversation between Wilkinson, Higgins, Sharaz, and Llewellyn provides detailed insights into their mindset before the interview on The Project.

Lisa Wilkinson told Brittany Higgins and her partner, David Sharaz, that she was motivated to report on the alleged rape as she wanted to be a “champion for women who are being suppressed”, court documents show. A 268-page transcript of a five-hour conversation Higgins and Sharaz had with Wilkinson and The Project producer Angus Llewellyn in 2021 was released during the defamation trial.

It provides an extraordinary level of detail about the mindset of Higgins and the journalists in the weeks immediately before The Project interview was aired in 2021, revealing Higgins’ allegations she was raped in Parliament House

 

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